Archive for June 2024

Above: One of the two, Sen. Tanya Vyhovsky, MSW, P/D-Chittenden Central, speaks at the Statehouse in Montpelier on June 20, 2023.

Dr. Christopher Smith, an Associate Professor in Memorial University’s School of Social Work, is researching DFSA test kits

‘I’d done nothing wrong’… Tony Sinclair had worked all his life – but still found himself sleeping rough. Then even his tent was taken away from him

Amid spiralling workloads and a staffing crisis, mental health social workers in Barnet have taken over 60 days of strike action to demand investment in a vital service. Barnet’s Labour Council have responded by using strike-breaking agency workers.

They’ve been touted as an alternative to food banks that provide more choice and dignity to people struggling to afford food… People who use social supermarkets are allocated points to “spend” on food.

The U.S. government on Tuesday acknowledged for the first time the harms that the construction and operation of dams on the Columbia and Snake rivers in the Pacific Northwest have caused Native American tribes. It issued a report that details how the unprecedented structures devastated salmon runs, inundated villages and burial grounds, and continue to severely curtail the tribes’ ability to exercise their treaty fishing rights. Above: The Lower Granite Dam near Colfax, Washington